Atholl Duncan: Why the BBC should not be privatised

AS the glorious floods of summer begin to subside, there are signs that Scottish journalism has entered the silly season a few downpours early with a piece in The Herald last week calling for the BBC to be privatised.

This is a worse idea than the Edinburgh trams. Look at what tough commercial times and declining advertising revenue have done to the Scottish newspaper industry.

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